God Has Abandoned Us: U.S. Politics November 2023

Some elections coming up

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/04/10-biggest-races-election-day-00125386

Fingers crossed

“One ⁦@GlennYoungkin⁩ adviser, speaking on condition of anonymity, predicted a ‘massacre,’ saying the state’s center-left orientation and views on abortion would be too much for Youngkin to overcome.” https://t.co/e1Ra9wklUq

— Jeff E. Schapiro (@RTDSchapiro) November 4, 2023

As a newly minted Virginian, my first act is helping him eat shit.

I don't get to vote against my shitass governor (like myself, a transplanted New Jerseyan) until next November, but I'm ready.

I'm trying not to let myself feel too much hope about MS-GOV. Presley has been campaigning hard and Reeves has been hiding out hoping the (R) will be enough.

I hope the Democrats get out the vote efforts are more thorough in Mississippi than they were recently in Louisiana. In Louisiana too many Dems stayed home , allowing a right wing extremist to become governor with only a small percentage of registered voters

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mike-johnson-son-monitor-porn-intake-covenant-eyes-1234870634/

Evangelicals are all insane.

“Accountability”

I expect his home looks very clean and tastefully decorated in a style that all but shouts "no humans live here".

“And no one beats off here, that’s for darn sure, yessiree.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc7EUmqaR88

its wild that there's only one elected Republican who it feels like you can even remotely relate to right now and it's Chris Christie. you think the high profile ones are bad and then when some random dude from the party starts making news they always wind up being one of the weirdest motherfuckers on the planet.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch:

1. Two members of @Moms4Liberty have reported several Florida librarians to law enforcement, claiming the librarians committed felonies by distributing pornography to minors.

Popular Information obtained the video from the Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office.

WATCH: pic.twitter.com/Korty5aoVs

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) November 6, 2023

(Dunno the best way to display this thread for the twitter-averse.)

Here's the write-up on it from Legum's website:

https://popular.info/p/moms-for-liberty-members-call-the

The media seems to do a poor job of pointing out that these lunatics define "pronography" in a very different way from the Supreme Court, or, indeed, normal people.

definition? i know pornographers when i see them at the checkout desk

yeah Neko Case stops by sometimes

Tapley told Popular Information that any book that has a "sex scene" is pornography and not "appropriate for minors." She did acknowledge that there may be exceptions for "extreme classics."

And Tapley will determine what the "extreme classics" are, I'm sure.

Lady Chatterley: Extreme Classic

I would like to round up every single member of this fascist loon cult and read to them the most disgusting books I can imagine— I’ll begin with Guyotat’s Eden Eden Eden.

I bet these people are still talking about rainbow parties

XTreme Classics sponsored by Surge

display this thread for the twitter-averse

https://nitter.net/JuddLegum/status/1721521769134125092

I would like to round up every single member of this fascist loon cult and read to them the most disgusting books I can imagine

naw i reckon this is all projection and these fuds are into the sickest shit you could imagine, eg https://newrepublic.com/post/176676/mike-johnson-son-monitoring-porn-intake-national-security-threat

Tapley will determine what the "extreme classics" are, I'm sure.

Already decided. It's the Bible with its numerous sex scenes. No others.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is a musical porn

"dreamcoat" being slang for condom, of course

creamcoat

Amazing unicolor

I still just keep coming back to this incredulity that anybody is fighting about library books, when every kid has a smart phone. And can easily Google celebrity lookalike gang bangs or whatever they want. Just so utterly divorced from reality.

Not if they have the Mike Johnson “Covenant Eyes” spyware app installed!

These women can't possibly think they can police all of this. Which leads me to the conclusion that this is all just a way of stirring shit.

Look for the GOP to push the Supreme Court to roll back the landmark Some Brat v Their Parents decision that allowed kids to have smart phones in the first place.

https://static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/kelvin-keef-smut-busters.jpg

I keep humming Covenant Eyes to the tune of "Hungry Eyes."

Any idea what the book in question is?

I think it's mentioned in the article, some benign YA fantasy novel.

3. The "porn" at issue is actually a YA novel, Storm and Fury. The book is mostly about humans and gargoyles fighting demons.

There are a few passages w/sexual themes, but it's recommended by the School Library Journal, Barnes & Noble, and others for high school students pic.twitter.com/w8sXVfAu4j

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) November 6, 2023

Wait, weren't Storm and Fury those pro-Trump shills?

The cops must have rolled their eyes so hard they detached their retinas.

xpost no, it's the upcoming MCU movie starring Halle Berry and Samuel Jackson

i support the attempts to get formulaic YA literature off the shelves and people reading real books

as if one leads to the other

i support the attempts to get formulaic YA literature off the shelves and people reading real books

Yeah, this is the thing — I don't support the psycho anti-"porn" lady, but I also don't support people reading YA fiction, which is absolutely garbage, just not the specific kind of garbage she thinks it is.

y'all never read Henry James' gargoyle novel

Let's ban YA books for non-conservative reasons!

an abundance of trashy novels is hardly a new thing

These women can't possibly think they can police all of this.

oh they are dumb as fuck

Fair point, I think they’re the ones who approvingly quoted Hitler recently.

Mein Kampf didn't have any dirty bits, did it?